Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals Name of Early Christians.
 

Here is a interesting article.
http://leaderu.com/theology/burialcave.html

Yeshua was a common name among Jewish people.

One person named Yeshua was buried in a borrowed tomb but He didn't stay there for long. He rose from the dead! He would not have needed an ossuary.

I dont think this is true. The name Jesus is an English evolution of the original English Iesus. Iesus apparently was the transliteration of the Greek or Latin version of Yeshua.

But maybe Im reading this wrong? Is the Author saying they found "Yeshua" period? And THEN that to us today that equals Jesus? More likely thats what was meant. Sorry I threw the thread off.

The crosses they keep pointing out bothers me.

The adoration of the cross was something brought to us by Constantine and his motley crew.

There is some doubt that the cross was even a cross bar cross as we see today. Todays cross is stylized after the lower case T for Tammuz which can be seen in antiquities on Egyptian hieroglyphs etc.

As a matter of fact the steeple with the t on top is taken from pagan worship where the steeple represented the phallus of Nimrod and the t was the seed coming forth from the phallus.

So... people go into these archaeological sites and they presume to have found "christian" things by the modern definition of Christianity.

I don't necessarily discount the findings... who am I to do so... but some of their presumptions and interpretations bother me to say the least.

kind of what i was thinking reading it. however, our understanding is based on some amount of histoical tradition. maybe these discoveries dispell some of that?

Re: Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals Name of Early Ch
 

is my name in there? I am pretty old...